Cimorene

Did all of you already know about this Gary Oldman Nokia commercial? If so, everyone who didn't tell me is FIRED.

wax made chocolate cupcakes last night and forgot the baking powder.  the texture's still fine, they just look rather hilariously concave.

yesterday i tagged all the images in my screencap galleries from a dangerous man and meantime and then i uploaded and sorted and tagged my 800+ screencaps from rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead.  there REALLY should be a method of tagging in the interface that lets you tag more than one at a time, because as it is you have to go through... one picture at a time.  unfortunately (or fortunately?) my ocd tendencies wouldn't let me go to bed before i finished tagging (nearly 4 am).  so the cool effect of the tags, mainly, is the tim, gary, and tim/gary tags which encompass caps from meantime and from r&g.  (there are character-specific tags too for both movies, and a lawrence/feisal one under adm.) 

but after i was finished with all of that i noticed that if you look at the parent gallery it now lists--for example--3888 pictures in r&g because, apparently, it's separately counted the contents of each sub-gallery, so in effect every tagged cap is listed a minimum of twice (if it's just ros or guil), but is listed six times if it contains both of them (tags: tim, gary, ros, guil, tim/gary, and ros/guil).  so, like, i wish they'd fix that.  there are, in fact, under 300 meantime caps, not 2227.  for now i can't really think of any way to fix that. 

it was actually gary oldman's birthday yesterday.  in any practical sense, i don't particularly care about his birthday--it's not like i know him personally--, but i've seen enough pictures posted that i figured it was as good an excuse as any to post. 

so i present ( my favourite gary oldman picture ), the one that inspired it's called the world. 

the other thing that inspired said novellette was wolfsage's comment about gary growling here (i hunted through months of community and journal posts for this damn thread :facepalm:).  and my favourite bit of unapologetically kinky fantasy ( from that fic: )

tim's brain:  he's so fun!  and easy to talk to!
tim's brain:  if only i could kiss him.
gary's brain:  now i kiss him!
tim: sugar?
gary: yes, please.

the full coffee!tim & gary is here.

oh bad writing, how i sometimes ♥ thy absurdity.

"writing can let you work through something. you don't know what the characters are going to do to you, exactly, when you start. it's like playing with a ouija board to communicate with your own subconscious."

" ...omg now i really like that metaphor and want a ouija board icon with like tim and gary ghosts hovering over it."

i actually started to type up the whole handout. i was going to translate it too but i got bored and stopped halfway through the swedish.

suffice it to say that on top of being badly-written, it features a coffee date conversation between a man and a woman, where they keep telling us what they think AND what they say. they're saying things like, "coffee keeps getting more expensive", "actually it got a little cheaper lately but you know it'll go up again!", "i use an electric brewer", "they make the best coffee! they can be a little dangerous though!"

and they're thinking things like, "he's so fun and easy to talk to" and "he's probably not interested" and "if only i dared kiss him" and "how could he be interested in little old ME?"

...possibly the fact that this reminds me of the wip isn't a good thing.

( lust och längtan (feat wishywashy!gary and tim) )

at long long last it's finished. thanks to kmazzy and wild_boys for their speedy and comprehensive british betaing, and most especially to perhael for holding my hand and cheerleading through practically every scene. this one's definitely for you, lilah.

high rent
author: cimorene111
rating: nc-17; v/ graphic sex
summary: au. 1982 london: to celebrate what could be his big break, gary oldman goes out to celebrate... and picks up a rent boy.
some slight background: by a strange and alarming coincidence, the possibility of this story was first discussed in rosnguil one year ago tomorrow. wild!

i've also, just in case, posted it in my writing journal.

i don't do asking memes because i can't really comprehend the state of not being open for questions.  if something ticked me off i obviously wouldn't answer it, but i can't come up with anything that would offend.  i'm also a "no such thing as tmi" kind of person, except with respect to certain people i hardly want to know anything at all about, and then it's more the person than the trivia.  perhaps these things are related.  i've thought about this a lot, because every time there's a wave of those "ask anything" or "ask anything, v. my fic" or "ask anything, v. userpics" memes going around i have to stop countless times and wonder. 

i'm ocd like that.

in other news, partway through page fifty.  i don't know if i can go to bed tonight before it's finished.

twenty-five pages.  hunh. 

only ten of those are smut. 

...ahem.

wolfsage and i ( play badminton with my scruffy, middle-aged gary!slash idea. )